Month: June 2009
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To the islands indeed
We’d never have guessed how prophetic that particular blog title would be and if you’d told us a week ago we’d be moving out to waiheke for two months, well, we probably would have believed you – but we certainly wouldn’t have thought of it ourselves. Not then anyway. But we did a few days…
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my perfect garden
Just down the road a little old lady has a wonderful meadow garden. Ours never had the chance to establish itself but this is exactly what we’re after. Vegetables in amongst the flowers and flowers everywhere. Perfect! I felt a little bit naughty taking photos so these don’t quite capture the full magnificence of it…
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closing time
Tomorrow we’re going to buy me an ipod. It’s not so much the thing of buying a thing. Today it’s the choice between music and drugs. Not fun drugs but the drugs doctors hand out. And I’m not much of a one for the doctor. Today I said well look I’m already going to go…
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a little book
Lovely styles of London living spaces at amazon.jp Just after edith was born I was emailed out of the blue by a japanese journalist asking if I would like to be interviewed and for them to photograph our house for a book on London interiors. And here it is a few months later – by…
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camp richmond
Here we are a week later. We’ve sorted and sold and thrown away and packed. The cats are in Auckland already. We’re at my brother’s in Richmond another week. It’s a bit of a utopia once one hits the river path. On Sunday we walked to St Margarets village and down to the playground. It…